stockade 的 2 个定义
- Fortification. a defensive barrier consisting of strong posts or timbers fixed upright in the ground.
- an enclosure or pen made with posts and stakes.
- U.S. Military. a prison for military personnel.
stock·ad·ed, stock·ad·ing.
- to protect, fortify, or encompass with a stockade.
stockade 近义词
enclosure; jail
更多stockade例句
- A Look at Nashville’s History Nashville was first established as a settlement along the banks of the Cumberland river in 1779, when a band of pioneers led by Englishman James Robertson first cleared the land and built a stockade.
- It was Korea, and I served three years—half of it in the stockade.
- I lay against a corner of the stockade seat, listening to the wind whispering and to the ceaseless drip-drip of the trees.
- I returned alone to the stockade, and for a long time after that kept the fire blazing, and sat up smoking and thinking.
- "We should put a stockade of logs across the neck of land on that side," answered Champlain.
- A stockade half bars the river of Plouernel, and serves as a shelter for the barges of the seigneur.
- We had no form of shelter, and there was no stockade around the camp, only a guard and a dead-line.